DAY 1 (November 21, 2013)

9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introduction

I. Magna Graecia, Etruria and Carthage

9:15 – 9:30 Federica Pitzalis (Università di Roma La Sapienza) "L’artigianato tessile in Etruria. Il contributo femminile all’economia domestica tra VIII e VII secolo a.C."

9:30 – 9:45 Massimo Cultraro (Catania) and Anita Crispino (Siracusa) “Il dolio e il fuso: per una ricostruzione del ruolo e della sfera di azione della donna nella Sicilia orientale alle soglie della colonizzazione greca”

9:45 – 10:00 Antonio De Siena (Soprintendente per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata), Margarita Gleba (UCL), Francesco Meo (Università del Salento) “Tessuti, tessitrici e tombe: nuove prospettive archeologiche sul ruolo della donna nella sfera domestica dell’arco ionico durante l’età del Ferro”

10:00 – 10:15 Francesco Meo (Università del Salento) “Testimonianze archeologiche di un’attività produttiva femminile da Herakleia di Lucania”

10:15 – 10:30 Antonella Mezzolani Andreose (Università di Bologna) « Al di là delle convenizione: mogli, madri, figlie e che altro ? Il ruolo economico delle donne nel mondo punico »

10:30 - 11:15 Discussion

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break

II. Classical Greece

11:45 - 12:00 Deborah Lyons (Miami University, Oxford OH) “Female Goods in the Ancient Greek Domestic Economy”

12:00 – 12:15 Flavia Frisone (Università del Salento) “Beni delle donne, spazi sociali delle donne. Le legislazioni greche arcaiche e le norme riferibili al genere”

12:15 – 12:30 Brenda Griffith-Williams (University College London) “‘She was treated abominably, gentlemen’: women in the Athenian inheritance system”

12:30 – 13:00 Discussion

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 -14:45 Laura Meijer (Utrecht University) “Anthropology and dowry in Classical Athens. An inquiry into the applicability of anthropological theory on classic Athenian society”

14:45 - 15:00 Paolo Tosoni (Pisa) "Proprietà femminile e ruolo economico della donna nella polis ateniense del IV secolo : Considerazioni a partire dalle orazioni di Iseo "

15:00 – 15:15 Anna Maria D’Onofrio (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”) “I beni della sposa nella documentazione iconografica classica »

15:15 – 15:30 Renee M. Gondek (University of Virginia) “τὰ χρυσία καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια: Women’s “Paraphernalia” in Marital Processions on Athenian Vases”

15:30 - 16:15 Discussion

16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 – 17:00 Nikolas Dimakis (University of Athens) ‘Women’s share in status display: some observations on female burials’

17:00 - 17:15 Maciej Daszuta (University of Liverpool) "Spartan wife - the real keeper of Lacedaemonian oikos?”

17:15 - 17:30 Dr. Olakunbi Olasope (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) “Women as Domestic Labourers in Athenian Economy”

17:30 - 17:45 Mireille M. Lee (Vanderbilt University) “The Gendered Economic of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections of Wealth and Status”

17:45 – 18:30 Discussion

20:00 Dinner

DAY 2 (November 22, 2013)

III. Graeco-Roman Egypt

9:00 – 9:15 Jakub Urbanik (Warsaw) "‘Just as if e were the children of a whore’ Family disputes relating to dowry and their resolution in the light of the late antique papyri"

9:15 - 9:30 Amaia Goñi Zabalegui (University of Salamanca) “Receiving letters, sending goods: women’s economic role in private letters from Roman Egypt”

9:30 – 9:45 Marianna Thoma (University of Athens) “Women’s role in domestic economy of Roman Egypt: The Contribution of the Gnomon of Idios Logos (BGU V 1210)”

9:45 - 10:15 Discussion

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break

IV. Roman Syria and Palestine

10:45 – 11:00 Hannah M. Cotton (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “The various legal arrangements made for women in the Judaean Desert archives”

11:00 - 11:15 Ranon Katzoff (Bar Ilan University, Israel) "P.Yadin 17 and Marital Economics"

11:15 – 11:30 Yifat Monnickendam (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Earnest Money and Betrothal in the Eastern Roman Empire and its Origins”

11:30 – 11:45 Andrea Raat (Munich) “Family tombs in Roman Palmyra: values, meanings and social relations revealed by jewelry finds and funerary portraits of women displaying jewelry”

11:45 - 12:30 Discussion

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

V. Roman Republic and Empire

14:00 - 14.15 Karen Klaiber Hersch (Temple University) "Materia Magica: Ritual Goods at the Roman Wedding"

14:15 - 14:30 Alessandra Valentini (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia) "Da madre a figlia: i beni e gli ornamenta di Emilia Terza"

14:30 - 14:45 Polly Lohmann (Munich) "Symbolism vs. reality. A methodological approach to trace the activities of female household members within the domus"

14:45 - 15:00 Herica Valladares (Johns Hopkins University) "Cosmetics and Imperium: Mapping the Mundus Muliebris"

15:00 - 15.15 Anna Fedele - Donato Labate (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici
dell'Emilia Romagna) “Instrumentum con scene erotiche dal Modenese: la loro presenza in tombe femminili”

15:15 – 15:45 Discussion

15:45 - 16:00 Christer Bruun (University of Toronto) “Property Ownership by Women in Rome, Ostia, and Italy”

16:00 - 16:15 Marja-Leena Hanninen (University of Helsinki) “Julio-Claudian women and their family economy”

16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 - 17:00 Anna Guadagnucci (University of Neuchâtel) "Pliny the Younger’s women and their economic role"

17:00 - 17:15 Dimitrios Mantzilas (University of Thrace) "Female Domestic Financial Managers: Turia, Murdia, and Hortensia"

17:15 - 17:30 Carlos Sachez Moreno Ellart (Valencia/ Trier) “The pacta dotalia regarding the wife’s rights of recovering the dowry”

17:30 -18:15 Discussion

DAY 3 (November 23, 2013)

VI. Vesuvian Area

9:00 - 9:15 Vincenzina Castiglione Morelli del Franco "Sulle tracce di donne imprenditrici a Pompei e nel Vesuviano"

9:15 – 9:30 Rosaria Ciardiello (Università degli Studi di Napoli) “Donne imprenditrici a Pompei: Eumachia e Giulia Felice”

9:30 – 9:45 Maricí Martins Magalhães (Laranjeiras) "Le testimonianze epigrafiche della partecipazione femminile alla vita pubblica e alle attività della domus - tra Nuceria, Stabiae e Surrentum"

9:45 - 10:30 Discussion

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

VII. Byzantium

11:00 – 11:15 Paolo de Vingo (University of Turin) “Powerful women in Byzantine Liguria (533-568)”

11:15 – 11:30 Irene Chrestou (University of Athens) “Innkeepers, ship-owners, prostitutes: three “female” business activities”

11:30 – 11:45 Claire Fauchon (ENS de Lyon) “Women and hospitality: Transformations of their economic role in the domestic sphere at the end of antiquity”

11:45 – 12:00 Dr. Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie (Universitaet Mainz) "The Byzantine woman and her jewellery"

12:00 - 12:15 Katerina Nikolaou (University of Athens) The contribution of women to Byzantine family properties: The testimony of legal, hagiographic and epigraphic sources.

12:15 – 13:00 Discussion and conclusions